A growing number of artificial intelligence researchers focus on algorithmic bias

December 14, 2017

Kate Crawford, Distinguished Research Professor at New York University, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New York, and a Visiting Professor at the MIT Media Lab, presented The Trouble with Bias at the NIPS 2017, the most influential and attended (over 8,000 people) conference on artificial intelligence.

Why do I talk about algorithmic bias so frequently on H+? Because in a future were AI augments human brain capabilities, through neural interfaces or other means, the algorithmic bias would manipulate people’s worldview in ways that mass media and politics can’t even dream about.

Before we merge human biology with technology we need to ask really difficult questions about how technology operates outside the body.

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